Bony's Tumbleweeds

Many Filipinos heartily live with spirits, in urban and rural setting and capture folk attention, from funny, serious to incredulous.
Reality? Actuality.
Aug. 8, 2010, Baguio City, Philippines summer capital: a bus plunged in a ravine. Passengers died.
Days later, site residents heard hair-raising wails in the dead of night; rescue and media members who covered the accident were haunted.
Believers in Faith, they opted to be exorcised. A pig was sacrificed to the unseen; cleansing was done.
The Laperal House. Gives the creeps being near it. Tales of a lady lurking there, nightly.
Heirs want it disposed. No takers.
After its owner died, none dares stay in. Rumor runs he was deliberately pushed. Tenders come to clean, hear strange noises, they say, “Please, Robert dear, be very welcome.” Noise subsides.
A lot at Dominican Hill, previous home to nuns and priests slaughtered and beheaded by Japanese forces during WWII. Its church was torn, a grand hotel built. But guests and employees experienced eerie sounds from empty rooms and headless specters glide through.
Mysteriously, it was burned. Charred and blackened portions stand. Seen afar, they are grotesque phantoms reaching the sky. Neighbors tell of noise from the ruin: clanging, singing, piano sounds, creaks, hushed voices.
Burnt chickens are often offered.
Halsema National Highway, Baguio’s major road link. Highway engineers say they often divert operations for days to avoid disturbing elf-mounds and give elves time to move.
Engr. Jules Likigan, told of a time they were slicing a mountain to ease traffic pressure as a result of a highway avalanche.
They began blasting a huge rock when machineries broke down. They stopped to investigate
Locals started having nightmares. Protest poured.
“A medium found the rock home of elves,” he said.
It was decided to build over the rock, believed natural habitat of elves, which can turn nasty if their homes are disturbed.
He believes in ghosts, elves and important to keep them alive.
Students were asked if decline in belief of ghosts was due to age of enlightenment, modern age or age of ghosts themselves.
“Questions are based on false premise, ghosts are very much alive,” countered Maureen Cachero, a student.
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